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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1956
Page
2
A Capitol note touts Renton in BUFP and Stan’s famed albums with pieces like Artwork in Boogie and Peanut Vendor. It also highlights Sandre Gleason’s latest release with romantic selections such as Love Letters in the Sand and When You’re Away.
A long list of guests and family gatherings fills the week with picnics in the Algona area. Attendees include Mrs Victor Fite and many Kain family members visiting at the C L Young home plus multiple relatives and friends from Iowa and beyond.
Extension Director Dean L. Barnes of Algona says Kos suth County evergreens look healthy in fall but brown this spring. Cause is winter injury not disease or insects, per plant pathologist Malcolm Shurtleff. Low snow and precipitation worsened damage across Iowa. many windbreaks lost.
Shurtleff notes widespread evergreen injury across southern Iowa with young trees and sun exposed spots most affected. Symptoms include needle wilting and browning. many trees weaken and invite insect and disease attack. Recommendations include soil fertilization, deep watering, heavy mulching, and wind protection for vulnerable evergreens.
The Conservation Commission in Des Moines offers full color prints from Maynard Reece’s Iowa Fish and Fishing. 63 species are shown across 18 plates including game, rough, minnows, darters and smaller fishes. Two formats: 9 plate sheets for framing at 2 by 3 feet each for $2 per sheet. or folders of individual plates for $2 per folder.
In 1941 London a blind man named John Ugger or similar volunteers to lead travelers through blackout streets to safety. He becomes a nightly guide, directing individuals and small groups home, earning small coins for the boys in the camps. His wife Matilda supports him as he regains purpose.
Advertising copy for a fashion pattern offering a feminine afternoon style in sizes 34 through 48 with cap sleeve option. Includes yardage details 456 yards of 35 inch fabric and a mail order request to Iris Lane in Chicago for 35 cents.
The new edition of Iowa Fish and Fishing will feature page form pictures and is expected to be available by mid June. The book will cost $2.50.
Early Iowa cash grain study shows most farmers use nearby elevators or neighbors for buying and selling grain. Only a few deal directly with long distance truckers. Richard Phillips and William H. Thompson direct the broader study on transportation patterns costs and efficiency. The cabbage cooking note mentions two thirds vitamin loss.
A fragment recalls Helene Du Guay of 5 Tudor City Place New York as her mother undergoes eye loss and hospital treatment. Helene faces fear while her mother adapts bravely and a doctor instructs on bathing and artificial eye removal.
The USDA notes July will bring abundant broilers fryers turkeys and cranberry sauce with lemons plums from California reach a 4000 ton crop by mid July and Santa Rosa variety tops the market. Granular insecticides offer corn borer control with less water and no mixing. Dairy cows reduce feed and milk output as temperatures rise toward 105 degrees.
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